Sam the Silkie

MANDATORY TIMELINE CLEANSE

A friend of mine who runs these things always repeats something to me along the lines of "Playtests and Research isn't for telling you the right thing to do, it's to confirm to you that your assumptions are correct and that your intentions are getting through to the players" and that's stuck with me

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

Ships in Gulf declare themselves Chinese to dodge attack

This “becoming Chinese” trend is getting out of hand

Who am I kidding, had to do the set

Is 4:20:00 too long to expect people to sit through the premiere of a video at a theatre

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

the gambling epidemic is genuinely so real like sports are entirely gambling now video games are gambling toys are gambling they're still trying to push crypto somehow which is like if money was gambling

Whenever I see a list of the biggest podcasts I wonder how people have decided to listen to podcasts but only to terrible ones. It’s like if you got into movies and started telling everybody that Zach Braff is probably the greatest living actor.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Well, I had a good run, chaps.

@gooseworx.bsky.social, if I may have one last request, it’s that you dunk my face in liquid nitrogen and smash it against a wall.

Just, like, actually Jason X style. If I’m going out, it’s gotta be some crazy shit.

small white dog with giant puff ball head

the dog looked at me!

this dog sat across from me in the train and the whole ride I tried to get him to look at me. he finally did after 1.5 hr

hey look a fun history lesson!

Max he dog giving baby eyes

I did too much doomscrolling today because there are so many things going on. Here is a cute photo of my dog giving baby eyes. Try not to stay up too late tonight.

The thing about me being a GenAI skeptic is that I am a third gen early adopter. My machine worker grandpa thought computers were the future and had an Apple IIE. I had two Geocities sites. Was on Facebook when it was still Harvard only. You know how hard you have to try to make me hate new tech???

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will be for The Trans Continental Pipeline, helping trans folks leave hostile states (ahem, Kansas) for Colorado.

the fun gang!

blender piece/comic depicting an introspective mole

mole's thought

these craven fucks are lower than dirt. dogshit opposition party

This simply doesn't seem all that far-fetched and needs to be investigated.

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the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.